British Academy Lectures 2012-13

Edited by Janet Carsten and Simon Frith

Description

British Academy lectures have previously been published in the Proceedings of the British Academy. Lectures are now made available in the new open access Journal of the British Academy. But they will also be printed in an annual volume. This volume publishes xx lectures from the 2012 and 2013 programmes, which were posted to the Journal in 2013.

The subjects covered include early 20th-century ethnographic research among the Andaman Islanders and Polar Eskimos, the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947, Edward Lear's nonsense poetry, university authors' rights and the end of the British Empire in India.

The editors are Professors Janet Carsten and Simon Frith, who are both Fellows of the British Academy. The authors are all recognised experts in their fields within the humanities and social sciences and the texts published here have been rigorously peer-reviewed.

British Academy Lectures 2012-13

Edited by Janet Carsten and Simon Frith

Author Information

Janet Carsten isProfessor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

Simon Frith is Tovey Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh

Contributors:

Kirsten Hastrup FBA is Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

Matthew Bevis is Lecturer in English and a Fellow of Keble College at the University of Oxford

Jane C. Ginsburg FBA is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University School of Law and Faculty Director of its Kernochan Centre for Law, Media and the Arts.

Ian J. Deary FBA is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and Director of the Medical Research Council-administered Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology.

Judith M. Brown is Emeritus Beit Professor of Commonwealth History in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Professorial Fellow of Balliol College.

Michael Cook FBA is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.

David Denison holds the Smith Chair in English Language at the University of Manchester and has held visiting professorships at universities in Europe and North America.

Arne Westad is Professor of International History of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Mark Mazower is Ira D Wallach Professor of HIstory at Columbia University and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities.

Nicholas Cook FBA is 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge.

Andrew Pettigrew FBA is Professor of Strategy and Organisation at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Colin Renfrew FBA (Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn) is Emeritus Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and former Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.